LONDON: A former Iraqi parliamentarian was found dead in a Beirut flat on Tuesday evening, Lebanese media said, hours after his relatives said they had lost communication with him. Ahmed Al-Alwani was allegedly strangled at an apartment in the capital’s Tariq Al-Jadideh neighbourhood. Lebanese media reported he was thought to have been enticed there before he died. A Lebanese security source said the flat was rented by a Lebanese person and two Syrian nationals. Security authorities have apprehended one suspect of involvement in the assassination, the source stated.
Officials have not released an official statement describing the circumstances of Al-Alwani’s death or naming any suspects. Investigators were said to be seeking to determine why he was in the flat and what caused his death.
Al-Alwani’s family told the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut earlier on Tuesday that they had not heard from him for four days, his phones were turned off and his companions did not know where he had gone. Lebanese capital Ahmed Al-Alwani found seemingly strangled in his flat Family reported him missing after losing contact with him 4 days earlier.
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